ballin'
adjEtymology Pronunciation spelling of balling. From basketballing, from basketball (referring to the high pay of professional basketballers).
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Multicultural London English, Slang Having an ostentatiously wealthy lifestyle.
African-American Vernacular
- Now this niggah home and gettin' it, rockin the new tinted-out Q45, new kicks and throwbacks every day, draped in jewels. The niggah was ballin'.2007, Edd McNair, Turning Point:
- My niggas is ballin' / You niggas is hatin' / Cameras everywhere I go.2011, Meek Mill [Robert Williams], “I'm Me”, in Dreamchasers:
- Related terms
- ball, baller, balling, ballin' the jack, b-ball